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1996Game Boy Pocket console familyConsole family

Nintendo · Console family

Game Boy Pocket

A smaller body and a sharper true black-and-white screen modernized the original Game Boy.

Documented hardware recordA source-linked factual history appears below. Undocumented development, regional, and package details are left unclaimed.

Game Boy Pocket reduced the handheld’s size and battery needs while replacing the green-tinted display with a clearer monochrome screen. It remained compatible with the original Game Boy library.

Released
1996 · Exact day not documented
Platform / family
Game Boy revision
Format / type
Cartridge
Region
Worldwide
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Documented item history

Release and collector context

Source-linked facts

Game Boy Pocket is a Nintendo hardware family documented for Worldwide, with a release recorded as 1996 (the exact day and month are not documented). The catalog identifies it as Game Boy revision hardware using Cartridge. PLAYBACK connects 12 documented hardware variants to this family, including Silver, Black, Red, Yellow, Green, 7 more.

Research status
Structured source record
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Release context

The documented release is 1996 (the exact day and month are not documented) for Worldwide on Game Boy revision. Date precision is preserved exactly: the archive does not invent a day when the source records only a month or year.

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Regional differences

This record is scoped to Worldwide. The linked structured source does not document a separate regional title or package difference, so PLAYBACK does not infer one.

03

Physical packaging

The physical format is documented as Cartridge. The current structured source does not enumerate every insert, manual, sleeve, or bonus item, so no unverified contents are claimed.

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Editions and revisions

12 hardware configurations are linked to this family: Silver, Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Clear, Pink, 4 more.

Research sources

  1. commons.wikimedia.org — catalog record ↗